Match-safe.



No. 64l,759. Patented Jan. 23, I900.

H T BUIE &. F J ARNEY MATCH SAFE.

(Apphcatlon filed Oct 24 1898 I (No Model.)

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NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

HENRY T. BUIE, OF BUFFALO, ARKANSAS, AND FRANK J. ARNEY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,759, dated January 23, 1900.

Application filed October 24, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY T. BUIE, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Marion and State of Arkansas, and FRANK J. ARNEY, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Im-. provements in Match-Safes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

Our invention relates to a combined matchsafe and cigar-cutter, and has for its primary object to provide an improved and simple con= struction of apparatus whereby the end of a cigar may be clipped off, and the same action will result in projecting a single match within reach of the user.

With these ends in view our invention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts by which the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearing are attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a rear view of our improved device, showing the back plate removed. Fig. 2 isa vertical transverse section taken on the line 2 2, with the matchmagazine removed to disclose parts in the rear. Fig. 3 is an end view, partly broken away, showing the interior of the match-magazine; and Fig. 4 is a modification.

1 represents a boX or casing, in the upper side of which and at one end is situated a match-magazine 2, having an inclined bottom 3, which slopes downwardly to the front wall 1 of the casing 1, and which wall 1 constitutes the front side of the magazine 2. The forward side of the magazine, or, more properly speaking, forward edge of its bottom 3, is slotted at a point adjacent to and parallel with the front wall 1*, and arranged in this slot is a vertically-reciprocating ejector 4, which is guided in its vertical movement by one of the end walls of the box 1 on one side and by a head or strip 5, secured to the front wall 1, 0n the other side. The upper edge of this ejector 4 is beveled downwardly toward the front Wall 1, as shown at 4 so that when the ejector 4 is depressed the matches will roll over such beveled edge and lodge between Serial No. 694,358. (No model.)

it and the wall 1, and the ejector 4, being substantially as wide only as the diameter of the match-stem, will, when allowed to rise, carry with it a single match, as shown at 6 in Fig. 2. The movement of the ejector4 is so regulated that its upper edge stops at little short of the top of the boX 1, and the front wall 1 of the box at such point is cut away on a bevel,

as shown at 7, so that the bevels 4 and 7 will .tongue therefrom and bending it outwardly through a vertical slot 10, formed in the front wall 1. The rear side of the ejector is provided with a lug 11, over which is fitted a slotted end 12 of one arm 13, having a bellcrank lever pivoted by stud 14 to a boss 15 on the front wall 1 of the. box. The other arm 16 of this bell-crank lever is also slotted, and working therein is a stud 17, projecting from the side and lower end of a lever 18, which is pivoted by a stud 19 and carries at its upper end the cigar-cutting knife 20, so arranged as to sweep back and forth just be.- low the cigar-holes 21, formed in the cover of the box 1. The ejector 4 is returned to its normally-elevated position, as shown in Fig. 2, and the cigar-cutting knife 20 to its withdrawn position, as shown inFig. 1, by means of aspring 22, coiled around a hub 23 of the lever 18 and having one end engaging with one arm of the lever 18, as shown at'24, while its other end, 25, is carried downwardly and engaged behind the hub 26, which connects the arms 13 and 16 of the aforesaid bell-crank lever. Hence when the ejector 4 is depressed by means of its thumb-piece 9 the knife 20 will be caused to sweep past the openings 21 and clip the end of the cigar, and in the meantime, the upper edge of the ejector being submerged in the matches, a match will lodge thereon in readiness to be carried upward and ejected through the opening 7 as soon as the cigar has been clipped and the thumb-piece 9 released.

The hub 26, which connects the arms 13 and 16, is somewhat elongated, so as to bring the arm 16 sufficiently close to the lever 18, which is preferably located at about the center of the box in order to be secured to the mid-length of the elongated knife 20, and in order that the lever 18 may have a sufficient bearing to make it firm the hub 23 thereof is elongated in both directions, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and the screw 19 passed therethrough and firmly embedded in a boss 27 on the front wall 1.

The match-magazine 2 may be filled by removing the cover of the box 1, which cover is provided at one end with a hooked lug 28, engaging in one of the end walls of the box, and at the other end with perforated ears 2.), through which and the side walls of the box passes a pin or rod 30.

In Fig. 4 we have shown a modification in which the thumb-piece 9 constitutes also the match receiver. In this form the thu m hpiece is substantially as long as the match, and the slot 10, through which the shank 9 projects, is closed by a downward extension 4 on the plate 4. The thumb-piece 9 may be connected to the plate 4 in any suitable way.

In the form of ou r invention shown in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, it will be noted that the lever 13 and knife 20 are actuated simultaneously by the thumb-piece 0 on the plate 4, while in the form shown in Fig. 4 the means for imparting simultaneous actuation to said lever and knife consists of the piece 9, which is at once a thumb-piece and a ledge or support for the match.

With our invention it will be seen that the cigar is clipped oif by the pressure applied by the operator while the match is ejected by the pressure of the spring 25. The advantage of this is that su iiicien t power may always be applied for cutting off the cigar and at the same time the jerk resulting from the sudden severance of the end of the cigar will not cast out the match with too great violence, the match being ejected by the pressure of the spring in lifting the ejector-plate after the cigar has been clipped and the cutter has been returned.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A match-safe having in combination a match-magazine provided with a verticallyslotted front wall and said wall also having a horizontal slot above said vertical slot, a vertically movable ejector plate arranged against said Wall and extending upwardly through the bottom of said magazine for carrying a single match to said horizontal slot, a thumb-piece 9 secured to said ejector-plate and projecting through said vertical slot and also constituting a receiver for catching the match as it drops from said horizontal slot, said ejector-plate having a downward extension 4 extending below said thumb-piece and also below said match-magazine so as to close said vertical slot, a spring for raising said ejector, a lever pivoted to the lower end of said downward extension 4 at a point below the bottom of the magazine and a cigar-cutteroperatively connected with said lever, substantially as set forth.

2. A match-safe having in combination the box or casing 1 having the front wall 1, the inclined bottom 3 extending from said wall 1 and constituting therewith the front, back and bottom of a match-magazine, the guidestrip 5, a vertically-movable ejector-plate arranged between and adjacent to one of the end walls of said box and said strip 5 and passing upwardly through the inclined bottom 3 and being contiguous to the front wall 1, the upper edge of said ejector-plate being beveled toward the wall 1 and said wall 1 being provided with a longitudinal slit opposite said beveled edge and the vertical slot 10 below the match-magazine, the thumbpiece 9 extending outwardly from the ejectorplate through said slot 10 and constituting at once a m atch-receiving support and a means for operating said ejector, and a spring for actuating said ejector-plate in one direction, substantially as set forth.

3. A match-safe having in combination a match-magazine, a vertically-movable ejector-plate arranged therein for ejecting the matches therefrom, a lever having one arm connected with said ejector-plate for operating the latter, a cigar-cutter knife, an operative connection between said lever and knife, means for actuating said lever and knife simultaneously and a spring for raising said ejector-plate to eject the match and simultaneously withdrawing said knife, whereby the cigar will be clipped by the pressure applied by the operator and the match will be ejected by the pressure of the spring, substantially as set forth.

4. A match-safe having in combination a match-magazine, an ejector for ejecting the matches therefrom, the arm 13 having pinand-slot connection with said ejector, the arm 16, the elongated hub 26 connecting said arms, the pivot 14, the lever 18 having sliding connection with the arm 16, the knife 20 carried by said lever 18, the elongated hub 23 on the lever 18, the boss 27, the screw 11) passing through said elongated hub 23 and into said boss 27, the spring 22 wound around said hub 23 and having engagement with said lever 18 at one end and its other end fixed, substantially as set forth.

HENRY T. BUIE. FRANK J. ARNEY.

Witnesses:

EDNA B. JOHNSON, F. A. HOPKINS.

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